A PUBLIC SCHOOL IN PRAGUE, BOHEMIA 



The Czech philosopher Comenius, who lived during the seventeenth century, the bloodiest 

 of all centuries excepting our own, urged that all children, rich and poor, should be taught 

 to read and write. His teachings were in part responsible for the compulsory education of 

 all American children early enforced by American colonists (see pages 179 and 184). 



Photographs from R. D. Szalatnay 

 GENERAL VIEW OF THE OLD CITY OF PRAGUE AND THE RIVER VLTAVA, WHICH THE 

 COMPOSER DVORAK IMMORTALIZED IN A MUSICAL POEM 



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